Tonight and Every Night (1945)

★ 5.2 1h 32m IMDb

An American girl falls for an RAF pilot while performing at a British music hall.

Tonight and Every Night

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Cast

Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth as Rosalind Bruce Died 1987 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA Margarita Carmen Cansino (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), known by her screen name Rita Hayworth, was an American film actress and dancer of Spanish Roma and Irish descent. After going through exten...
Lee Bowman
Lee Bowman as Squadron Leader Paul Lundy Died 1979 · Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Lee Bowman (December 28, 1914 – December 25, 1979) was an American film and television actor. According to one obituary, "his roles ranged from romantic lead to worldly, wisecracking lout in his most...
Janet Blair
Janet Blair as Judy Kane Died 2007 · Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA Janet Blair  (April 23, 1921 – February 19, 2007) was an American film and television actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Janet Blair, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contribu...
Marc Platt
Marc Platt as Tommy Lawson Died 2014 Marc Platt was born on December 2, 1913 in Pasadena, California, USA as Marcel Emile Gaston LePlat. He is an actor, known for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Oklahoma! (1955) and Tonight and E...
Leslie Brooks
Leslie Brooks as Angela Died 2011 · Lincoln, Nebraska, USA At first acting under her given name of Lorraine Gettman, blonde film actress Leslie Brooks began appearing in movie bit roles in 1941. When her Warner Bros. contract was sold to Columbia, Brooks star...
Dusty Anderson
Dusty Anderson as Toni Died 2007 · Toledo, Ohio, USA Dusty Anderson (December 17, 1918 - September 11, 2007; born Ruth Edwin Anderson) was an American actress. She was a World War II pin-up model and appeared in the Yank magazine. From Wikipedia, the fr...

Audience Reviews

CinemaSerf 6/10 Jul 23, 2025
The “Windmill” theatre in London was renowned for staying open throughout the blitz and it’s there that this wartime feel-good comedic romance is set. Here it has been renamed the “Music Box” and is the home of an entertainment that never misses a night, even as the doodlebugs rain down on the determined population. “Sam” (Ernest Cossart) is the stoic stage manager and it’s through his eyes that we take a trip down memory lane and meet the formidable “Tolly” (Florence Bates doing her best Dame May Whitty) who is casting for her latest song and dance show. Rather curiously, a dapper young gent from Manchester appears with no set routine. He just likes to improvise his dancing to whatever he hears on the radio. He demonstrates and she likes it and him, but concludes she can’t use him. Luckily for “Tommy” (Marc Platt), two of her company try to change her mind by teaching him something he can do again, and again… “Ros” (Rita Hayworth) and “Judy” (Janet Blair) are Americans doing their bit for the war effort and this is frequently a perilous undertaking. It’s in the under-stage air-raid shelter that “Ros” encounters RAF pilot “Lundy” (Lee Bowman) and who knows, perhaps a romance might blossom? Well if it will, it’s going to be a bumpy ride for just about everyone, including the smitten “Tommy”, and the war has no intentions of sitting on the sidelines whilst they work out the rituals of courtship. It’s really that last point that is most poignantly illustrated here, but along the way there are quite a few nicely performed on-stage routines that allow Hayworth to show she had quite a few strings to her bow, as do the engagingly employed Blair and Platt. Sammy Cahn and Jule Steyn present a soundtrack that has a certain familiarity to it without ever really delivering that killer number, though perhaps “Anywhere” - actually sung by Blair - stands out. It’s a lively and colourful film that shows a perseverance and spirit of optimism from those on the ground during the Second World War and it also illustrates just how crucial these shows were for the military in diverting their attention from more dangerous matters.

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